[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] small encoder segv fix

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Aug 20 01:21:34 CEST 2003


On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:52:14PM +0100, Alex Sisson wrote:
>  --- D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote: >
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:33:09PM +0100, Alex
> > Sisson wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > if you do mencoder foo.wav -oac somecodec  
> > mencoder
> > > will segfault.
> > > so this is just a simple fix for that.
> > 
> > mencoder is a *movie* encoder, so it's not supposed
> > to work with
> > audio-only files.
> it's also not meant to segfault.
> 
> > That would be kinda silly anyway
> > -- putting mp3
> > audio inside an avi file with no video.
> yes
> 
> > If you want
> > to fix this bug,
> > make mencoder print an error message and quit if
> > there's no video
> > stream.
> thats sort of what it does. the function fails and the
> calling function (whatever that is) prints an error
> about loading the video so i didn't think another was
> necessary. then it quits.

Hmm, maybe it's ok then. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

Rich



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